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"Bribery, extortion, entrapment, murder? A defense attorney's work is never done! Perry Mason (Raymond Burr), along with associates Della Street (Barbara Hale), Paul Drake, Jr. (William Katt) and Ken Malansky (William R. Moses), investigates all manner of mysteries to clear the names of the innocent and bring justice to the guilty. The drama continues in the final four TV movies with a little help from old friends Anthony Caruso (Paul Sorvino) and...
246) The hanging judge
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"When a drive-by shooting in Holyoke, Massachusetts, claims the lives of a Puerto Rican drug dealer and a hockey mom volunteering at an inner-city clinic, the police arrest a rival gang member. With no death penalty in Massachusetts, the US attorney shifts the double homicide out of state jurisdiction into federal court so that he can seek a death sentence. The Honorable David S. Norcross, with only two years on the bench, now presides over the first...
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Almost everyone agrees - Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal - that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Almost everyone agrees that punishments are too severe, and too many people...
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The real Santa is hired by Macy's to play the department store's Santa in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but has to prove in court that he is who he says he is.
The real Santa is hired by Macy's to play Santa in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but he has to prove in court that he is who he says he is.
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A collection of writing by six incarcerated men, Life Sentences is a hybrid of prison memoir, philosophy, history, policy document, and manifesto. It is also a how-to guide for those who are trapped inside our own community, uninclined or unable to form loving connections with those around us, ashamed perhaps of the harm we have done is a letter of invitation, asking readers to join with the incarcerated, their families, and the editors and teachers...
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"For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and other county officials kept are invaluable sources for local and family historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is the first in-depth guide to them. He shows how and why they were created, what information they contain, and how they can be accessed and used."--Page 4...
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"When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1983 in rural North Carolina, death sentences were commonplace. In 2015, DNA tests set McCollum free. By then, death sentences were as rare as lightning strikes. To most observers this national trend came as a surprise. What changed? Brandon Garrett hand-collected and analyzed national data, looking for causes and implications of this turnaround. End of Its Rope explains what he found, and why the death...
255) Perry Mason
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Although Perry Mason is a lawyer by trade, he and his staff Della Street and Paul Drake spend most of their time sleuthing. Unmasking the real culprit is the only way to free their always-innocent clients.
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Eight men charged. Five confessions. But only one DNA match. Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? Program investigates the conviction of four men -- current and former sailors in the U.S. Navy -- for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Va., woman in 1997. In the first television interviews with the "Norfolk Four" since their release, Bikel learns of some of the high-pressure police interrogation techniques -- the...
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Detectives Goren and Eames work for the NYPD Major Case Squad. The detectives use their skills and wits to stop the worst criminal offenders in New York City. Experience life on the wrong side of the law as perpetrators plan and execute the crimes that lead them into the justice system.
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"The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population, it contains nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. But the extent of American cruelty goes beyond simply locking people up. At every stage of the criminal justice process - plea bargaining, sentencing, prison conditions, rehabilitation,...
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